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United States Patent | 5,512,104 |
Mizushiri ,   et al. | April 30, 1996 |
In order to utilize separately steel pipe and coating resin as recycling resources, resin-coated steel pipe, which is produced by adhering a thermo-plastic coating resin on the surface of steel pipe with an adhesive, is heated by high-frequency induction heating to at least the melting temperature of the coating resin, and the coating resin is scraped off while the inner layer thereof is in a melted condition and the outer layer is in a softened condition. Coating resin and steel pipe can be recovered without the composition thereof being damaged. The scraping of coating resin is complete and efficient and requires only minimal energy since it occurs when the inner layer of the coating resin is in a melted condition and the outer layer is in a softened condition.
Inventors: | Mizushiri; Toshitsugu (Shizuoka, JP); Yokota; Mamoru (Shizuoka, JP); Nakamura; Norimichi (Shizuoka, JP); Ota; Ken (Shizuoka, JP); Yoshino; Shuji (Shizuoka, JP); Inoue; Noboru (Shizuoka, JP) |
Assignee: | Yazaki Industrial Chemical Co., Ltd. (Shizuoka, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 212597 |
Filed: | March 11, 1994 |
Current U.S. Class: | 134/1; 134/5; 134/10; 134/16; 134/17; 134/19; 134/32 |
Intern'l Class: | B08B 001/00; B08B 003/12; B08B 007/02 |
Field of Search: | 134/1,5,19,10,16,17,32,38 427/156,358,409,544 |
3236688 | Feb., 1966 | Kahn | 134/5. |
3923653 | Dec., 1975 | Lavins, Jr. | 134/5. |
3941087 | Mar., 1976 | Yazaki | 118/306. |
4534801 | Aug., 1985 | Matsuoka et al. | 134/17. |
Foreign Patent Documents | |||
2063689 | Mar., 1987 | JP | 134/19. |